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Noun: woolly monkey
  1. Large monkeys with dark skin and woolly fur of the Amazon and Orinoco basins
    "The woolly monkey's prehensile tail acts as a fifth limb for moving through the trees"

Derived forms: woolly monkeys

Type of: New World monkey, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian

Part of: genus Lagothrix, Lagothrix

Encyclopedia: Woolly monkey